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Remarks of  Prof.  Geo. Gross,  M.  D.
REMARKS I?Y PKOF. GEORGE GROSS.M. I)..
  NO. 311 EAST CAPITOL STREET, AVASU-
  INGTON. D. C, ON A BILL TO PROHIBIT
  THE MANUFACTURE  AND SALE OF IN-
  TOXICATING LIQUORS IN THE DISTRICT
  OF COLUMBIA.
  Dr. Gross, said:
  Mr. Chairman : I appear before your
honorable body as a prohibitionist as a
beverage and medicine for  fifty years.
and I  desire to  erase the word  medical
on the eighth line of the bill, which ex-
cepts their use for medical, scientific and
mechanical purposes; for in disease there
is a diminution of that surplus of vitality
in all persons to guard  against and ward
off disease, and  all intoxicants  and all
other poisons still further diminish  the
vitality and produce disease.  Dr. Higen-
botham. said : " It is impious to  say that
alcohol is necessary in any cure ''  I then
ask you   as  intelligent  gentlemen, to
grant the prayer  of this bill which would
make it the model city of the nation, and
set a most worthy example to the world.
As a radical  reform in the theory and
practice of  medicine is  indispensably
necessary for the health and longevity of
the people, then teach them what health
and disease is ;  what  medicines are ;
what alcohol is and its  effects and adul-
terating;  why most physicians  use it
and all other poisons, as medicines, for
nothing but  enlightened  public senti-
ment, will ever effectthisglorious change.
Then men will live until ripe and full of
years  before they are gathered to their
Father, and not be so ready to accept all
the good minister  says and the doctor
prescribes, without knowing the truth
of one  or the effects of the other.  When
one says  " the Lord giveth and  Lord
taketh away," and the  other prescribes
alcohol and all other poisons,and destroys
 the people, which is charged to the Lord,
 when he only suffers us to be duped,
 poisoned, slain and robbed, if we  will
 submit to it after  the light and knowl-
 edge he has given us, and more we might
 easily obtain.   Then come and reason to-
 gether and no longer submit to bow the
 knee  to the image of Bael which  this
 poison medical Nebuchadnezzar has set
 up.  Justice and humanity demand  that
 these systems of legalized human butch-
 ery,and, as Dr.  Chapman says, horrid, un-
 warranted,murderous quackery should be
 explained, before truth and science can
 ever reign.  The destruction of a kind and
 affectionate mother and sister with mer-
 cury, arsenic, strychnine, opium, alcohol,
 etc., in my youth, and being a graduate
 of the Allopathic  and Physio Medical
 schools, and  thoroughly  posted  in all
 thers, prompts me to dare to exposes
 this ignorant and destructive practice.
  I attended the great American  Medi-
 cal and Surgical meetings just closed in
 Washington, where they (like Dr. Bush),
 acknowledged their ignorance of disease,
 of its causes and proper  remedies,  and
 that  their practice is experiment;  and
 their main object seemed to be to invent
and use instruments and means of torture,
and recommended  them  before it  was
necessary, for fear that it might become
so. which, they said, often proved fatal.
In the case of President  Garfield, who
suffered more human butchery, torture
and quackery by daily probiiig  twelve
and a half inches in his belly for a  ball
in his back and soaking him in alcohol,
starving and  poisoning  him until  the
vitality was destroyed and he died (in my
opinion) from the treatment, and in
spite of the prayers of a united  world,
which could uot avail against the daily
violations of (>od's immutable laws, even 
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by one poison doctor, which proves that
man's inhumanity toman makes count-
less thousands mouru.and that health is
happiness, and disease with poison treat-
ment is suffering and premature death.
Dr. Rush said they assisted in multiply-
ing disease and increased its  mortality;
and Prof. D. S. Gross (whom they all  de-
light to honor), said,  as for the real  es-
sence of medical science, little is known,
indeed, nothing at all.  They seemed to
fear that truth  and  science will  dispel
their ignorance and quackery, which  is a
disgrace to the profession and a curse to
the world.  While he who can teach how
to preserve health and cure disease is a
real benefactor of his i*ace and should be
duly appreciated.  All the  prescriptions
I heard were poisons,  and alcohol was
chief.  As the women  are  the greatest
sufferers from the use of alcohol and all
other poisons and torturous quackery,
and are first in  every good word and
work, I fondly anticipate much valuable
assistance  from them in this  most  hu-
mane  reform.   The doctors  complain
that seventy per cent, of obstetric  and
female  cases are treated by women in
Cincinnati.  It  is   too  bad  when  the
poison doctors try so hard to monopolize
their inhuman practice.  1 have treated
scores of the most  desperate cases of
obstetrics  and female complaints,  and
have not lost a case in fifty years' prac-
tice, which gave me that chair in our
medical college in New  York City.
     These poison systems we protest
     By  nature's God were never blest;
     Although  in tears we must confess
     They haste their thousand souls to rest.
  Then what is health  and how is it to
be preserved?  All scientists tell us that
the abdity of  all   the  organs of  the
body to perform their natural  offices
constitutes a state  of health, and only
requires wholesome food, pure water and
air, suitable clothing,  proper exercise
and rest to keep up a healthy action  and
carry off all of its wastes and impurities.
But from  one hundred  and one  viola-
tions of nature's laws some  of the or-
gans of the body become obstructed and
inactive, and its impurities are retained
in it, which produces an inability of some
organs to  perform their natural offices,
which inability is the disease, and has a
variety of form and causes.
  Then, by equalizing the circulation and
nervous action with sanitive  vegetable
remedies, will remove those obstructions
and  impurities and  restore  a  natural
ural state or condition without any poi-
son or disease left in the system to mar
their happiness and shorten their  lives.
Now. what  are medicines V   The word
medicine was taken from the Latin word
medicina.fYom medenr to cure disease  And
as all poisons destroy the vitality and pro-
duce disease, and never cure  it,  then
poisons are not medicines or remedies
for dise se, and are  used by  doctors to
produce and n ot to cure diseases as we
will show.  Then, what is alcohol?   All
agree that it is the intoxicating princi-
ple in all spirituous liqu  rs,.and is not in
anything in  irature,  but is produced by
vinous fermentation  and distillation of
various fruits and grains which destroys
their nutritious and stimulating proper-
ties and  converts them into a poison
which produces irritation, inflammation,
ulceration, mortification, scrofula  can-
cer, &c, of  the  stomach and similar
effects upon all  other organs of  the sys-
tem.   It coagulates the fluids  and corru-
gates the solids and contracts the nerves
and other viscerait touches, and deprives
them of sense and motion, and, like opium
and tobacco, impairs the brain and intel-
lect, depraves the appetites and passions,
and are foolish  filthy,  expensive, and
very  injurious habits and beneath the
dignity of men to use them: for they de-
grade him as much below the brute as he
is elevated  above by nature; and it dis-
solves the  gastric juice and prevents
digestion, absorption, and nutrition, and
produces all  forms of disease.
  The word  intoxicate was taken from
the Latin toxicum,  or taxn,  to poison ;
then all intoxicants  are narcotic irritant
poisons.  A  narcotic produces stupor,
coma, convulsions, and death ; an irri-
tant produces a  vitiated and abnormal
state or condition ; while a pure vegeta-
ble stimulant increases the vipd energy and
strength of action. All poisons produce
a morbid, noxious aud dangerous effect,
and destroy  the vitality  on which health
and life depends.  They also  use strych-
nine, stramonium, belladonna,  fusil oil,
cocculus indicus, opium,  tobacco,  &c,
 as narcotics;  sulphuric  and   prussic
 acids, aquifortis, spirits of nitre, oil of 
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vitriol, oil of turpentine, red bugs, black
ants, and Spanish flies &c. as irritants,
tannic acid, alum, copperas, sulphate of
iron and copper, as astringents : nitrate
and caustic potash and sugar of lead.&c..
to correct taste in their adulterations,
which are deadly vegetable, animal, and
mineral  poisons,  and still  the people
swallow them because  the  doctor says
so, when the doctor is the most ignorant
man on earth of his own business, and
by keeping the people so, he can poison,
slay and rob them.
  Oh, what guardians over the health ar d
lives of the people!  And if no drunkard
can enter the  kingdon of heaven, where
will such drunkard makers appear V  All
the motions of the body are carried on
by alternate relaxation and contraction,
and aie kept up by the stimulous and
nutrition  of food, water, and air, which
replenish  and purify the  blood  that
circulates to all parts of the system, and
nourish and  strengthen it,  and  keep
up  that warmth of  vitality  on  which
life and health depends; and he who
takes blood, or destroys the digestive
process which produces it. (as alcohol and
all other poisons do,) is a vile enemy of
the sick,  and should be regarded as an
ignorant criminal, instead of being hon-
ored as a man of science and skill, for
it is the ignorance and dishonesty of the
doctors which is the destruction of the
people.
  Why do most  physicians use alcohol
and all other poisonous medicines ?  Be-
cause it is according to their  theory and
teachings.  Then, what do they teach V
The word allopathy was taken from two
Greek words  alios,  other, and pathm,
morbid  condition.  The allopaths and
homteopaths both teach that another and
a qrtat r disease must be produced with
medicines.  The  allopaths of  a contrary
and the  homceopaths of a similar nature,
as the allopathic practice  is  founded on
the law  of contrari,  contarius,  curanter,
and the homoeopaths on the law of similia,
similibus, cnrantur.  Both also teach that
the most virulant pcnsons are their best
medicines.  Ul>i virus ibi wrtu-s,  where
poison is there is  virtue. Both further
agree that fever or inflammation is dis-
ease, and must be subdued, and both use
the  most deadly  poisons, which destroy
the vitality and too often kill the patient
when the fever is only an effort of nature
to remove the co use of disease.  So you
see that they do  not  discard poisons
because they are poisons,  and produce
disease, but  both use  them  because
they  are  poisonous,  and  do  produce
disease.  So both are systems of disease
makiny with poisons.  The allopaths also
teach that there are from seven to eleven
hundred diseases, and they require heroic
remedies,  which certainly  are  like the
Caesars and Alexanders of old, powerful
to destroy, heroic in blood and havoc and
devastation.  Drs. Hooper,  Hunter, and
others say that medicine never  changes
the morbid to a healthy condition ; that
is alone  the work ot nature, and Dr.
Rush says the only reason people  live
under such treatment is  because na-
ture  can  withstand   the  disease  and
their treatment  also.  These  state-
ments laid the  foundation  of   hom-
oeopathy, which was to dupe  the people
more and poison them  less, and let na-
ture perform "the cure unopposed,  and
the little sugar pills have the credit; but
most of them are what  Hahnemann calls
mongrels,  who use as much poisons as,
and are but small children  of, allopathy
and no more worthy of  confidence. They
teach that disease is a spiritual change of
the animal economy ; that the symptoms
of disease is the disease itself, and that it
is solely the morbidly-affected vital  prin-
ciple which brings forth disease, and how
the vital pviv.iple produces  disease  is a
useless  question which cannot be an-
swered.  I answer, that it  never  does
produce disease but puts forth an effort
to remove the cause of  disease,  for  dis-
ease is a  statv or  condition and not an
action, and it is the vital principle which
produces the remedial  action.  He only
mistakes the vital action for the diseased
condition, that is all.  Again, they tell us
that a cure can never be obtained but by
a morbific power that will produce symp-
toms similar and  a little stronger, and
that physical and moral disease are cured
in the same manner.  Again,  if we wish
to destroy the  entire  disease  we should
use a medicine which will produce symp-
toms similar or opposite, which experi-
ence proves the easiest and  safest.  This
is only a little contradiction. 
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  Again, they teach that the smallest
dose  possible  is  always the best,  and
should not  be repeated until  its  full
effects are realized, which often requires
from fourteen to one hundred days,  and
that its effects are as beneficial by once
smelling a little sugar pill as often r-s
taken above
  Is it any wonder then that Dr. Herring,
author  of  Hahnemann's  Organnon,
should say  that  he never  accepted a
single theory in the Organnon as therein
promulgated ?  If the people were prop-
erly informed, they would not only  dis-
card the theories, but the practice of all
who use alcohol  and  other  poisons as
medicines.   Well  might  Drs.  Eberly.
Barton, Hayes. Bigelow. Whiting,Water-
house, Rush, Chapman, Sewell, Robin-
son, Curtis.  Hooper, Gross, and hosts of
others say, that opium, mercury, alcohol,
and all  other poisons  always act per-
niciously, and destroy more lives than
pestilence, famine, and the sword ; that
medicine  as taught in the schools is
not science, and  their  practice  is  not
art, their doctrines are false, and  are
hypotheses  piled  on  hypotheses,   and
absurdity,   contradiction,  and   false-
hood, and were conceived,  born,   and
schooled   in   ignorance,   and  their
practice is barbarous, ignorant, and in-
human ;  when  true  medical  science
teaches the  art of preventing and curing
disease, and a physician is one skilled in
that art. and  not one who  produces a
greater disease with alcohol and  other
pcnsons, which should be prohibited by
law.
  St. Paul tells us that the intoxicating
cup is the devil's cup, and its use is
always devilish ; but the opposite is the
Lord's cup, the  cup of  blessing,  the
communion  of the blood of Christ.
  I regret that I cannot now explain this
important subject more fully, but I am
writing another, of  twenty thousand
copies, for gratuitous distribution,  ex-
plaining all  schools of  medicine, their
treatment and their effects, (including
rum and tobacco), to enlighten the people
and dispel ignorance and quackery,  and
serve  God  acceptably, and  enjoy  the
luxury of doing good.
  From my success with nature's harm-
less remedies in cholera, typhoid, yellow,
scarlet, and puerperal fevers, consump-
tion, diphtheria, putrid erysipelas croup,
asthma.rheumatism, inebriation, Bright's
disease, etc.. etc., without rum or any
other poisons. I received a gold medal in
1842, and a gold watch and chain for phil-
anthropy, perseverance and -kill in 1*58,
and my own likeness for voluntary, kind
and skillful treatment in 1861, requesting
it to be placed in the Capitol in Washing-
ton. D. C, and that our practice be in-
troduced in the army as an act of justice
and  humanity to the soldiers.  >Jowtet
us come  up  to the help of  the  Lord
against the mighty, and seek and speak
the truth and dare to do right, knowing
that with the sword of  truth and the
approbation of heaven,  one can drive a
thousand and put ten thousand to flight.
Then let us rejoice and take courage, for
in due time we will reap if we faint not.
Let us all dispense with rum and tobacco
and all other poisons  which  produce
disease, but aid nature to subdue disease
and all fevers and  appetites for strong
drink, in from twelve to forty-eight hours
with  inoffensive remedies,  when  the
valetudinarian will rejoice and the wives
and children will be exceeding glad, and
all will unite in singing, " Oh, how happy
are they who their Saviour obey."
  I propose to donate fifty acres of choice
fruit  and garden land lor an inebriate
asylum, and most of a  large house and
ten acres of fine land for a female hospi-
tal and free school for the medical educa-
tion of women and a training school for
nurses, where all schools of medicine will
be  taught  aud pure sanitive  vegetable
family medicines for all forms of disease,
without alcohol or other poisons, will be
kept, wholesale  or  retail; if others will
aid in this humane enterprise  where
great good can be done and money made
also.
  N.  B—I will go to any place and ex-
plain this important subject more fully
by merely having my expenses paid.
  Anyone publishing this will please send
me a copy.